The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-14

| of the death of Smith, but quietly
/ consented to step into carriage
| with Maggie Terrell and the officer and be
driven to the barracks. Reyes was placed
in spring wagon and driven 10 the barracks
where he was locked up for safe keeping. He
| was searched, but he had nothing but gold
watch and chain. He was asked if he knew
| where Cassidy had been the night before. and
became violently angry and said that if he
! had awakened only a moment earlier he
would have killed the ---. He afterward
! stated that he awakened at o'clock, and as
| he got ont of bed Cassidy ran out of his
room. Cassidy had been in there at his
| clothes trying To rob him he thought
TELL-TALE FLASK.
Cassidy was taken into the station and
was searched. Before the search was made,
however, he took from his pocket a whisky
flask and drank from it. 1t was identified
as the flask that Smith bad bought the
night before just as he and Cassidy left the
pavilion. He had besides 81 80 in
money, several keys and a four
bladed pen knife Cassidy and the Terrell
woman were then taken to Jail and locked
up, but later Maggie Terrell gave a bond Of
$500 and was released. She said that she
knew where Cassidy had been all night and
would tell at the proper time. short
while later the wife of the tele-
graph operator at Tybee telephoned to
better be held, as she could tell more about
the murder than anyone else except the
murderer, and she knew more than people
there thought she did. The authorities were
confident, however, that she could be had at
any time and she was not rearrested.
The Coroner made arrangements during
the afternoon TO 90 to Tybee in tug and
hold the inquest 1t had been learned that
Kcyes could have been in nowise implicated
no ygybp ha h9
pavilion, and went to bed at once, so the
Coroner took him to Tybee to testify as
witness.
THE CORONER AT TYBEE.
The tug Cambria with the Coroner reach
ed Tybee at about 73O o'clock, and the
Coroner at once impaneed a jury and pro-
ceeded to hold an inquest Twelve white
men were sworn on the jury, and they pro
ceeded to view the body, which had lain on
the beach all day. They found four wounds
two on the head, one in the neck and one
on the breast. The wounds appeared to
have been made with a stick, a knife and
the heel of a shoe. The body was dressed
in an undershirt, trousers and socks. 1t was
apparent that the body had been in the
water After the body had been viewed it
was turned over to the friends of the dead
man, who placed it on the tug Cambria and
started to the city with it.
THE INQUEST.
After the removal of the body the Coro-
ner and the jury retired to the Seaside
Pavilion and proceeded to discover what
evidence there was as to the cause of the
murdered mans death. Mr.. A. Minis, Jr.
was the first witness He related how that
on Wednesday morning at about $50 O'Clock,
while riding along the beach in a hack in
which was j. n johnson, and
Others, the body was discovered. He
described its appearance and said that
a pair of shoes was found near by. The
jury examined the locality where the body
was, and evidence of a struggle was
very plain. There were tracks of a large
shoe and of a small one, and from the pc
Sition of the tracks it appeared as if the per-
son who made the large tracks was pursuing
the one who made the small tracks. The
shoes found near the body fitted the small
tracks.
substantiating what Mr.. Minis would say
He was excused by the Coroner before the
inquest began.
MR.. wRIGHT's TESTIMONY.
Mr.. John Wright, proprietor of the Sea-
side Pavilion, testified that Smith and Bar
ney Reyes came to the island Tuesday
night, and that Reyes was Under the in
fluence of liquor and very noisy. The pro
prietor of the Ocean House ordered
him away, and he was finally permitted
to remain, at the Seaside Pa
vihon, on, condition that Smith
keep him quiet. About II O'Clock Smith
came out of his room and in n little while
met Cassidy at the Pavilion and had a glass
of beer with him. Smith was dressed
about as he was when his body was found
with the exception that he had
on shoes and derby hat.
After drinking the beer the two men started
down toward the beach. That was between
II and / o'clock, and that was the last that
Wright saw of either Cassidy or Smith
Tuesday night. On Wednesday morning
he saw Cassidy running to catch the cars
for the boat. A woman, a little girl and n
negro boy were with him.
No further evidence had been taken up to
IL O'Clock last night. The inquest, however,
was still in progress. The Tybee telephone
worked so badly that it was with the great
est difficulty that anything could be heard
over it. AT the island the impression pre-
walls that the testimony against Cassidy,
while wholly circumstantial, Is very strong.
THE MOTIVE FOR THE CRIME.
Two motives for the murder have thus
far been assigned. Mr.. Walter Smith, the
dead mans brother said that Smith took
with him to Tybee $40 in money and gold
watch and chain, and il was suggested that
Cassidy had committed the murder for the
purpose of robbing his victim, but the
second theory is more probable: Smith
had been known to visit the Terrell woman
in Savannah, and on account of her presence
at Tybee it is thought that she was the
cause of the quarrel. In fact, it was said
that Smith and Cassidy had been heard
quarreling about the woman before they
left the hotel Maggie Terrell
will say nothing about the affair,
more than that she knows where Cassidy
was all night, and will tell at the proper
time. She lives with her mother over a
saloon which Mrs. Terrell keeps in Yama-
craw. A visit was paid there last night and
Mrs. Terrell was found behind the bar serv-
ing drinks to two young roughs.
MAGGIE FERREIL REFUSES TO TALK.
She was asked if her daughter was in, and
she replied that she was A request to see
her brought the response that she was COM
ing, and in a moment a big stout woman,
apparently - years old, entered the saloon
from the rear door. She was asked if she
would make a statement of what she knew
of the killing.
WHAT She asked, speak loud I'm
deaf
"Will you make q statement of what You
know of the killing Of SMITH Do You desire
20 make an explanation" bawled the re
porter
Nav, don't / can clear myself and
I'll do it at the proper time, but won'tsay
nothing now
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